Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To walk or go before.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb rare To walk before.

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  • verb To walk before; figuratively, to precede.

Etymologies

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pre- + amble + ?

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